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Saturday, 16 May 2015

Clarification on the role of Ryan Boyes

Ryan "Snowflake" Boyes handing out medals.

On Thursday, 14 May
2015, E-frag.net put up the details of the 'captains' of all the
national teams on their
site:
http://www.hltv.org/news/14968-world-championships-captains-unveiledIt
was very pleasant to see many of the old names there who would be
'captaining' their national teams.

Immediately though,
some South African gamers went berserk. “Who are these people?”,
and “I do not know any of them” were the general responses before
any of the gamers even bothered to ask for an explanation or for any
sort f clarification on the matter.

Indeed, this seems to
be the South African manner, when instead of stopping to think, ask,
and deliberate, our trusty keyboard warriors just 'fly off the
handle'.

The MSSA calmly
wrote to E-frag.net and suggested that Ryan Boyes was
indeed not the captain but was instead the manager of the team.

A
swift response was returned saying, “the word 'captain' is unique
to our tournament. It refers to the role of possibly being both a
player and manager – which is what some of the captains are
doing!”.

However, the MSSA as the National Federation
(in terms of the Sport and Recreation Act) has its own rules, and the
roles of manager and captain are distinct from each other.

Thus all those
gamers who were quick to respond before seeking any answers from the
MSSA will no doubt be pleased to know that Ryan Boyes is only the
manager.

But how is Ryan appointed as the manager, I hear
you ask….

Simple.

The
eSports Representative, by virtue of his position, is the manager of
all the National eSports Teams. Likewise the Board Gaming
Representative is the Manager of all the National Board Gaming Teams,
the Figure Gaming Representative is the Manager of all the National
Figure Gaming Teams, the National Schools Director is the Manager of
all the National Schools Teams, etc.

However, it should
be noted that the above-named office-bearers do have the power to
appoint another fully-paid-up member to act in their stead.

And, this is
important, only fully-paid-up Registered Players can act as
office-bearers ((on any level) of the MSSA.

As soon as the team
has been approved, the MSSA shall announce the entire official South
African MWEB Protea eSports Team for Counterstrike: GO squad for the
2015 season.